Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia
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So if we kind of think about like what's going to happen in the future, this thing could happen over here or this thing could happen over here.
There's all kinds of possibilities.
What are you going to do with your life?
Oh, I could do anything.
I could study this.
I could study this.
I could move here.
I could go over here.
There's a lot of possibility in life.
So what happens in existential depression is that the future becomes frozen or determined.
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It becomes a disordered perfection or completeness.
So this is kind of what what I see when I when I work with people who are depressed.
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What I sit with is someone who there's no there's no possibility of the future.
The future actually collapses down to one thing.
There's no more possibility.
No matter which road we start walking, we are going to end up in the same spot.
There's no point in effort because the future is foreclosed.